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"You Drool In Your Sleep"

Do you get the quote? It comes from the worse transition books to movies, Percy Jackson and the Olympians. You don't even want to get me started about the movies, so we'll talk about the books instead. This saga is written by Rick Riordan or as we call him in the fandom Uncle Rick. Did you know that Riordan means "royal poet" in Irish? He is one of the few old adult authors to really remember what it is to be young. "I have been called sassy. Please. A 48-year-old man cannot be sassy. Cantankerous perhaps. *Shakes cane* Get off my lawn! "  -Rick Riordan- He has written many series, linked between them so we call them the Riordanverse. It all begins with the Percy Jackson and the Olympians, or PJO for short. It this saga, Perseus aka Percy discovers he is the son of the Greek god of the sea Poseidon, that the Olympus is still pretty much important and alive and saves the world thanks to his friends Annabeth Chase, Thalia Grace, Grover, Tyson and many oth

"After all this time? Always."

Since it is the first real post you guys know next to nothing about me. Well, your wishes came true because here I am, telling you one of my darkest secrets: I am a Potterhead. You know how Katy Perry fans are called Kitty Cats? And Justin  Bieber's *trowing up* are called Believers? And One Direction's *trowing up again* are Directioners? Okay I admit that is a bunch of really bad examples but still, you get the concept, when they are fans, there is a name for them. Now you are wondering, "what is a Potterhead?". Don't worry, we are not aliens, we are not a bunch of weed addicts that smoke pot, we are simply a community that loves the universe that the goddess of writing J.K.Rowling created (the real one is Calliope in Greek mythology but that's for another post). Harry Potter is a saga composed of 7 books  (The Cursed Child doesn't count to my eyes) and 8 movies, made with the story of the books but with way less details. The principal character